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I suspect a lot of these electronics are intended for indoor use and are not made of UV stabilized plastics. I'd rather have yellowed electronics than ones made
by AlexandrB 5y ago
I suspect a lot of these electronics are intended for indoor use and are not made of UV stabilized plastics. I'd rather have yellowed electronics than ones made brittle by being left outside in the sun.
- bujak300 5y agoA couple of hours will not make a difference. After a couple hundred hours you will see uv radiation effects
- timw4mail 5y agoMost yellowed plastics are likely brittle too.
- VLM 5y agoObservationally heat seems to make plastics more brittle than sunlight. Top of dash car parts seem about as brittle as shaded bottom of dash car parts. Field service people seem to kill laptops in a couple years, although we're talking about hours long process not years so that shouldn't matter, anyway I don't recall the exposed tops of their laptops being worse than the bottoms of their laptops. The scientific debate about plastic breakdown seems to be over centuries vs thousands of years exposures so mere hours will be fine. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-sunlight-degrades-polystyrene-faster.html https://phys.org/news/2019-10-sunlight-degrades-polystyrene-...
- kalleboo 5y agoYeah working on old Macs all the internal plastics (screw standoffs, drive tray clips etc) are also super brittle so I’d say heat more than light